What Do I Use?

October 1st, 2020 –

Inspiration

After seeing a post by Jan-Lukas Else about them, I decided to join the growing number of folks who are sharing lists of what they use. Use the links below to jump to a specific section.

Hardware | Software | Websites

Hardware

Desktop 1 (Home) - Sonata

Motherboard: MSI Z97 PC Mate
CPU: Intel Core i5 4590
RAM: 32gb DDR3 (Crucial Ballistix Sport 2x8gb)
GPU: EVGA nVidia Geforce GTX 1050 Ti
Storage: 2x500gb SSD, 1x1tb HDD
OS: Windows 10 Pro
Displays: 2x1080p generics
Case: Antec Sonata III

Desktop 2 (Work) - Amory

Motherboard: ASRock Fatal1ty Z97 Killer
CPU: Intel Core i5 4460
RAM: 32gb DDR3 (Kingston HyperX FURY 4x8gb)
GPU: ASUS nVidia Geforce GT 640
Storage: 2x500gb SSD, 1x256gb m.2, 1x1tb HDD
OS: Windows 10 Pro
Displays: 2x1080p generics + 1x1080p in portrait
Case: Lian Li PC-7 A Plus

Laptop 1 - Newo

Brand: Microsoft Surface Book 1 - TechRadar
CPU: Intel Core i5 6300U
RAM: 8gb
Storage: 128gb internal, 128gb SD as VHD
Display Resolution: 3000x2000 pixels
OS: Windows 10 Pro

Laptop 2

Brand: Lenovo ThinkPad T410 - NotebookReview
CPU: Intel Core i7 620
RAM: 8gb
Storage: 128gb SSD
Display Resolution: 1440x900 pixels
OS: Lubuntu 19.04

Home Media Server - Ambellina

Motherboard: ASUS P8Z77-V LE
CPU: Intel Core i5 2400
RAM: 8gb DDR3 (Samsung 2x4gb)
GPU: EVGA nVidia GeForce GTX 750 Ti
Storage: 1x250gb SSD, 34.7tb of HDDs in two-way mirror Storage Space (similar-ish to RAID-10) with 1x250gb SSD as write-cache
OS: Windows 10 Pro
Case: Some generic Rosewill thing

Phone - Google Pixel 3 (128gb) - Verizon

Root Status: Not-rooted
Launcher: Nova Launcher Prime
Ad-Blocker: Blokada
Weather: Today Weather
Keyboard: Gboard
Messages/SMS: Android Messages (with Android Messages Desktop)
Photos: Google Photos, Piktures
Password Manager: Bitwarden
Other Vital Apps: F-Droid, Greenify, Amazfit Tools, andOTP, Auto Dark Theme, Backdrops, CoSy for Facebook, Pushbullet, ScreenCam, Solid Explorer, Simple Scrobbler, Tasker, Twitch 2! Contacts Formatter, Wallpaper Changer, Wifi Analyzer

Software

Productivity & Work

Email: Wavebox Pro
Chat: Slack
Creative: Adobe Creative Cloud + Inkscape + GIMP
Office: LibreOffice Fresh
File Manager: Total Commander
Remote Desktop: AnyDesk
PDF Reader: SumatraPDF
Lists & Deadlines: Trello
Screen Capture: screen2gif + ffmpeg

Other Windows Software I Use

PlexAmp
YouTube Music Desktop App
Tweeten
Calibre
ComicRack + ComicVine Tagger (or ComicTagger)
mp3tag
Filebot
notepad2-mod
dnGrep
7-Zip

Other Development Tools - Windows

Terminal: Windows Terminal
- Font: Fira Code
- Shells: WSL2 (Ubuntu, Bash), Powershell Core, CMD
Git GUI: Git-Fork
Package Manager: Chocolatey
Image Compression: FileOptimizer
SFTP: WinSCP
Key Management: PUTTY
Virtualization: VMWare Workstation
Remote Version Control: BitBucket

Other Development Tools - Linux

Someday I’ll get this together, but mostly iTerm2, nano, Firefox

Code Editor: VS Code Insiders

Extensions: Settings Sync, Alignment, Auto Close Tag, Auto Time Stamp, Autoprefixer, Beautify, Bracket Pair Colorizer 2, Can I Use, Color Highlight, CSS Peek, JS & CSS Minifier, Live Sass Compiler, Live Server, markdownlint, PHP Intelephense, Prettier, Python, Remote - WSL, SCSS Everywhere, SCSS IntelliSense, Spell Right, SVG, SVG Viewer, Trailing Spaces, WooCommerce - Snippets, Wordpress Snippets, XML Tools
Font: Fira Code
Color Theme: Monokai Dark Soda or Material Theme
File Icon Theme: Material Icon Theme

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